Mathematics in the time of the pharaohs / Richard J. Gillings.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Dover classics of science and mathematicsPublication details: New York : Dover, 1982, c1972.Description: x, 286 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: - 048624315X (pbk.)
- 9780486243153 (pbk.)
- 510/.932
- QA 27 G481m 1982
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Ed. orig.: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT press, 1972.
Includes bibliographical references ([267]-275) and index.
In this carefully researched study, the author examines Egyptian mathematics, demonstrating that although operations were limited in number, they were remarkably adaptable to a great many applications�b7�ssolution of problems in direct and inverse proportion, linear equations of the first degree, and arithmetical and geometrical progressions.
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